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One-way monologues through the Voice of America and Radio Free Asia don't have much street cred with China's Internet generation, to be honest.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Companies have choices to make about what extent they're handling their users' content.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
What role did the Internet play in the Egyptian Revolution? People will be arguing about the answer to that question for decades if not centuries.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Authoritarian systems evolve. Authoritarianism in the Internet Age is not your old Cold War authoritarianism.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
The critical question is: How do we ensure that the Internet develops in a way that is compatible with democracy?
— Rebecca MacKinnon
There is a broad movement that has been holding companies accountable on human rights for a long time.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Whatever Tencent can see, the Chinese government can see.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
The relationship between citizens and government is increasingly mediated through the Internet.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Like Syria, the government of Bahrain employs aggressive tactics to censor and monitor its people's online activity.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color.
— Catharine MacKinnon
Public trust in both government and corporations is low, and deservedly so.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
The Olympics brought a lot of development to Beijing, but I don't see that there have been any changes to human rights as a result of the Olympics.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
In my opinion, no feminism worthy of the name is not methodologically post-marxist.
— Catharine MacKinnon
Clearly Google is searching for a way to do business in China that avoids them sending someone to jail over an e-mail.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
In the Internet age, it is inevitable that corporations and government agencies will have access to detailed information about people's lives.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Citizens continue to demand government help in fighting cybercrime, defending children from stalkers and bullies, and protecting consumers.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
The creative person prefers the richness of the disordered to the stark barrenness of the simple.
— Donald M. MacKinnon
Sohu will protect you from yourself.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Male and female are created through the erotization of dominance and submission.
— Catharine A. MacKinnon
Human beings are the center of the universe from only one perspective, and that is our own.
— J.B. MacKinnon
In a pre-Internet world, sovereignty over our physical freedoms, or lack thereof, was controlled almost entirely by nation-states.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
We know things with our lives and we live that knowledge, beyond what any theory has yet theorized.
— Catharine A. MacKinnon
The Internet is a politically contested space.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Each of us has a vital role to play in building a world in which the government and technology serve the world's people and not the other way around.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
The early idealists and companies and governments have all assumed that the Internet will bring freedom. Yet China proves that this is not the case.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
All women live in objectification the way fish live in water. - Catharine A. MacKinnon WHEN
— Jessica Valenti
Distance is the Enemy of Awareness.
— J.B. MacKinnon
The Chinese government sometimes shuts down the Internet and mobile services in specific areas where unrest occurs.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
The sovereigns of the Internet are acting like they have a divine right to govern.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Women are raped and coerced into sex.
— Catharine MacKinnon
QQ is not secure. You might as well be sharing your information with the Public Security Bureau.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men.
— Catharine MacKinnon
There is a widening gap between the middle-aged-to-older generation, who still read newspapers and watch CCTV news, and the Internet generation.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman.
— Catharine MacKinnon
Digital activism did not spring immaculately out of Twitter and Facebook. It's been going on ever since blogs existed.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of sex; they were not coerced enough.
— Catharine MacKinnon
Seemingly small choices and small actions add up over time.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
While the Internet can't be controlled 100 percent, it's possible for governments to filter content and discourage people from organizing.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Google attempted to run a search engine in China, and they ended up giving up.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Facebook has conquered much of the world.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
In the physical world, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a wanted man.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
It takes a strong stomach and a thick skin to be a female activist fighting online censorship in Pakistan.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
We're going to get the Internet we deserve, and those people who are the most active in shaping the Internet to their liking are going to win out.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
The U.S. relationship with Bahrain is obviously more complicated than with Syria and Iran.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Normalization of U.S.-China relations in 1979, combined with economic reforms and opening, transformed the Chinese people's lives.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
It's particularly hard to take being stabbed in the back close to home. There's always a feeling of betrayal when people of your own group oppose you.
— Catharine MacKinnon
To have a .cn domain, you have to be a registered business. You have to prove your site is legal.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
I study how governments seek to stifle and control online dissent.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
We like to think of the Internet as a border-busting technology.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
There's a real contradiction that's difficult to explain to the West and the outside world about China and about the Internet.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
The Internet is an empowering force for people who are protesting against the abuse of power.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
We willingly share personal information with companies for the convenience of using their products.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Human rights in cyberspace are really no different from rights in the physical world.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
WikiLeaks published the Afghan War Logs and U.S. diplomatic cables stolen from a classified network by an Army private.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
The better-informed we are, the more we can do to make sure what's happening is in our interests and is accountable to us.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Whether or not Americans supported George W. Bush, they could not avoid learning about Abu Ghraib.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Professional camera crews are rarely there when a bomb goes off or a rocket lands. They usually show up afterwards.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
A lot of Chinese don't understand why people in the West are critical of China.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
There are a lot of people that think the Internet is going to bring information and democracy and pluralism in China just by existing.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Facebook is blocked in mainland China, but is used heavily by the rest of the Chinese-speaking world, including Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Most people who use the Internet seem take its nature and characteristics for granted, like we take air and water for granted.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
There's a lot of politics over who gets the next allocation of Congressional funding.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
The Chinese government clearly sees Internet and mobile innovation as a major driver of its global economic competitiveness going forward.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Microsoft, Yahoo and others are helping to institutionalize and legitimize the integration of censorship into the global IT business model.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Freedom only remains healthy if we think about the implications of what we do on a day-to-day basis.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
I've been called many things in my time, but never a conduit of divinity- Cedric MacKinnon, My Fearful Symmetry
— Denise Verrico
Personal soundness is not an absence of problems but a way of reacting to them.
— Donald M. MacKinnon
Research In Motion, the owner of BlackBerry, has been asked by a range of governments to comply with surveillance requirements.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
You don't have to be a nerd or a programmer or a network engineer to make a difference.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Governments clash with each other over who should control the co-ordination of the Internet's infrastructure and critical resources.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
In Russia, they do not generally block the Internet and directly censor websites.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Law in the United States is at once a powerful medium and a medium for power.
— Catharine MacKinnon
One day, people in China may be able to see the records of conversations between multinational tech companies and the Chinese authorities.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
China's censorship and propaganda systems may be complex and multilayered, but they are obviously not well coordinated.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
It's a tough problem that a company faces once they branch out beyond one set of offices in California into that big bad world out there.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
It's time to take decisive action to stop American and other multinationals from aiding and abetting the wrong side in the global digital arms race.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.
— Catharine MacKinnon
Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated.
— Catharine MacKinnon
Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?
— Catharine MacKinnon
Just take a risk. Go for it. I think if you crash and burn trying, it's still going to be better than if you never tried at all.
— Roderick Mackinnon
Citizens' rights cannot be protected if their digital activities are governed and policed by opaque and publicly unaccountable corporate mechanisms.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.
— Catharine MacKinnon
Consistently, Baidu has censored politically sensitive search results much more thoroughly than Google.cn.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
I first came to China as a child on a visit with my family in 1978.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Political activists in Hong Kong and Taiwan use Facebook as their primary tool to mobilize support for their causes and activities.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Taiwan politics certainly is colorful.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
China is building a model for how an authoritarian government can survive the Internet.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Congress may not get the Internet, but the Internet doesn't get Congress, either.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Many of the Kuomintang elite in Taiwan have relatives among the ruling elite here on mainland China.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Tactically, yelling at Google is unwise.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Shibuya is a trendy part of Tokyo where young people come to meet and have a good time.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Keep looking at me like that, and I'll change my mind. Forbidden fruit tastes sweetest. - Alysandir Mackinnon
— Elaine Coffman
It is not inevitable that the Internet will evolve in a manner compatible with democracy.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
If you want to have traction in China, you have to be in China.
— Rebecca MacKinnon